The fraudulent sale of tickets and vouchers is a very common alert during large-scale events such as the Pilar Festival. This year, at least eight victims of these events. The Utebo Civil Guard carried out an investigation which ended with the investigation of two people for an alleged crime of continuous fraud.
The investigation began on October 5 after receiving a complaint of alleged fraud. The complainant indicated that on October 3, he had acquired, via a well-known social network, seven access vouchers to the Zity Space for one total amount of 350 eurosas reported by the Civil Guard.
Payment was made by bank transfer and, once made, he did not receive the aforementioned bonuses nor was he able to contact again with the seller.
Through the analysis of the data provided by the complainant and the bank account to which the transfer was made, the Civil Guard obtained the identity of the account holder, as well as the co-owner of the account, the latter being a young minor.
Furthermore, various banking transactions were observed, in the name of different people, who could have been victims of scams after purchasing tickets or vouchers for the said event.
For all this, the agents contacted these people, who filed a complaint for having been victims of a scam after purchasing tickets or vouchers for Espacio Zity. A total of 8 victims were located who had performed the same procedure.
Likewise, these victims made the payment by transfer to the bank account, which was the same in all cases. By purchasing a ticket for the concert which took place on October 5 They paid 25 euros and for each voucher, 50 eurosin most cases.
Once the payment was made, the scammers either sent a photo with a QR code which, displayed at the entrance to the room, informed them that this entrance had already been used and therefore they could not access it, or They blocked the buyer’s contact and therefore the victims were unable to contact them.
From the analysis of the bank transactions and the data provided by the complainants, it was determined that the total amount obtained by the alleged perpetrators of The scam amounts to almost 700 eurosfor sales that they made within 3 days and the amount of which was shared between them. Thus, last Friday October 31, the Civil Guard located and investigated these two young people, aged 22 and 16, of Spanish nationality, for an alleged crime of fraud in progress.
